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Myth of the day

One of the more aggravating ideas to arise during the debate over same-sex marriage is the canard that religious leaders will be told whom they should be performing marriages for.

It's not so. In Massachusetts, where same-sex marriage has been available for nearly five years, the wall of separation between church and state is still quite intact, thankyouverymuch.

I dreamed a dream in time gone by

Okay, so this has been all over Facebook and the interwebs today, but WWP cannot resist sharing it again. Watch it all the way through. If you're not the slightest bit choked up by the end, you might want to check to see if you still have a pulse.

Paging Queen Gertrude

Over the weekend, gay bloggers were quick to blast Amazon for appearing to blacklist gay/lesbian authors by removing the popular (and sales-inducing) ratings for GLBT titles on its site. Turns out the "glitch" was the work of a hacker. Makes all the misplaced and premature gay outrage seem a little silly now, thinks WWP.

Accountability check

Parking rates at the the airport are going up. But air traffic at PDX is going down. Go figure.

[More interesting is the alarming figure reported at the end of the second article: Lufthansa traffic at PDX is down nearly 50 percent in one year. How do you say "Ack" in German?]

"He is risen!"

 

Now when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, that they might come and anoint Him. Very early in the morning, on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen. And they said among themselves, “Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?” But when they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away—for it was very large. And entering the tomb, they saw a young man clothed in a long white robe sitting on the right side; and they were alarmed. But he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He is risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid Him. But go, tell His disciples—and Peter—that He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see Him, as He said to you.” So they went out quickly and fled from the tomb, for they trembled and were amazed. And they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.[Mark 16:1-8]

Flippin' pancakes

It's that time of the year again.

[Here's how they celebrate in Alaska.]

Just wonderin'

This excellent conversation about the fate of Portland Mayor Sam Adams, and the funding of a potential recall campaign, has WWP wondering: If the "City That Works" can see fit to elect city commissioners with "voter-owned elections," why not implement voter-owned recalls?

Just saying...

Side by side

A love(ly) day.

Today's mail

Uh oh.

Theater of the obvious

No shit, Sherlock.